cerealogy

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A form of cereology — The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.

OriginAncient Greek λόγος (lógos) ← Proto-Hellenic *lógos ← Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos →
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Meanings

nouncerealogy (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of cereology.

    Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

    2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57
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    There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.

    2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv

    Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.

    2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor

Origin

  1. Englishcereal
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  4. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  5. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  6. Englishcerealogy

From cereal + -logy.

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